Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1904 — Page 1

VOLUME II

THE TICKET Big State Convention Adjourned The Complete List of Men who Will Lead Democrats to Victory in November Indianapolis, Ind., August 4.— The convention adjourned at 3:30 yesterday afternoon after nominating the full state tioket, as follows: Governor, JohnSV . Kern; India napolis; lieutenant-governor, Ward er W. Stevens,"Salem; treasurer, Major D. F . Allen, Frankfort; secretary of state, Edward J. Fogarty, South Bend; auditor, James R. Riggs, Sullivan; attorney general, JosehH. Shea, Scottsburg reporter of supreme court, Waltre. S Chambers, New Castle; state statistician, Jesse D. Smith, Indianapolis; superintendnet of public instruction, Levi H. Scott, New Albany; judge of the supreme court, second district George E. Downey, jAurora; judge of the supreme court, third district, Frank E. Gavin, Indianapolis.' The nomination of John W. Kern, of Indianapolis, for governor by acclamation was greeted with applause so deafening and prolonged that the chairman was without power to restore even a semblance of order. Only when Mr. Kern was escorted to the plateform and had begun to speak did the demonstration subside. One other incident, the entrance of Natonal Chairman Thomas Taggart provoked an ovation which grew into proportions surpassing , for a time, all efforts of the onalr to restore quiet. Even the band playnig vigorously in the gallery at he rear of the hall was drowned in the tumult of cheering. BELOW AVERAGE A Wheat Crop a Failure and Quality is Poor. A large number of farmers have completed the work of harvesting. In many localities the wheat lias k.on away below the standard both in quanity and quality. The threshing which is nowjattraoting general attention is showing the quality of the wheat crop. The production this year throughout the county is very small, and the quality is shown to be very inferior. In some instances there is not enough good wheat to furnish flour to a good-sized family. The threshers are expecting to close the season within a short time and they olaim thoy will not have the amount of work of last year by one third. Until threshing time the inferior quality of the wheat was not fuly realized. GOT FULL Another Fine Recorded on the Mayor * Docket. John Fuller who on yesterday got much fuller than he really, ought to be, and tried to let every one in town know it, was arrest ed last evening by Marshal Cordua and lodged in the oounty has tile where ho was permitted to cool off until this morning, when he was brought before Mayor Coffee and his actions of the day before were rehearsed in court. As ter hearing all the evidence the court Concluded that John Fuller was full and gave him the regular dose, ono dollar and cost, amounting in all,|to nine dollars und thirty oents. Fullle- will lay it out in jail

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DENIES IT J. E. Ellsworth says He is Innocent and Can Prove It. We are in recoeipt of a letter from J. E Ellsworth written from Fort Soott, Kansas, in which he says the issuance of a warrant for his arrest a few days ago for obtaining money under false pretenses was a case of malicious slander • The affidavit against him was sworn to by his former partner, W. J. Myers, who claimed he had collected an aooount of $5.33 from and appropriated it to his own use. Mr. Ellsworth says the account he collected from Mr. Beery was one due Ellsworth & Cline and in which Mr. Myers had no interest. He says the warrant was not issued until after it was known ho had left town. He says that if he was here he would immediately begin proceedings to reoover damages. STATE INSPECTOR Visits Decatur Industries Today Looking Particularly after People who Employ Young Children. Thomas Williamson, of Anderson, deputy State factory inspector is in the city today looking over our industries including tho factories, work shops,hotels, publio buildings, etc. He takes a short form inventory of the business and pays particular attention to places where children are employed. The laws of Indiana provide that no child under the age of fourteen years can work about machinery or where there is the least danger. From fourteen to sixteen tue employer must have in his possssion the aflidavit of the child’s parents permitting same. Mr. Williamson said he found but few violations here and in eaoh case the trouble was settled without prosecution. In several of the gas belt cities Mr. Williamson has much trouble and often times heavy tines are imposed for the offense. GOOD SNOWING — Wiltshire Horse Get Second Place at Winchester. At the Randolph oounty fair which is on in full bloom at Winchester, “Sigma C."the handsome

sorrel jiaoing stallion' belonging to James Chilcote, of Willshire. Ohio oaptured seoond money in a field of eleven starters and was right at i the front fighting it out with the winner,“ the best time of the race being 2:24 This is certainly a marvelous feat for this animal as he Lad unljr been in training for threo weeks and was hardly in shape for a bruising race of this ( kind, and was tho first raoo the , animal was ever in. Dick Sillick, , the veteran trainer and driver, handled the reins and drove this , horse for all there was in him un- ] der the circumstances, and horsemen from this oity who saw tho work of this animal pronounce that he has a brilliant future, an.l will make for his owner a round sum before the turf season doses. See- 1 oncl money in this raoo was worth r ono hundred dollars, which is not t a bad starter. "Virgil C.” another * paoer from this city, starts in tho 1 2:20 pace today and is expected to j get a piece of the money The 2:18 e trot failed to till and True Worth c will not have an opportunity to s start. *

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1904.

FOR MURDER t Mrs. Krauss of Hartford City Arrested i i Society Girl who Died Suddenly Sup- ' posed to have been Killed by Step-Mother. i Hartford, City, Ind.‘ August 4. ' —Mrs. W. B. Krauss wa3 arrested 3 by City Marshal Worley at 4 o'clock i this afternoon charged with mur--3 dering her stepdaughter, Crystal 1 Krauss, 18, who died yesterday asI ter noon of strychnine poisoning, j Both the defense and the state ask ed a continuance until Saturday morning at nine o’clock. Mayor Lucas granted it and Mrs. Krauss was taken to jail. When arrested J -Vlrs. Krauss was perfectly 000 l and merely said: “I am not guilty. The husband was much agitated and declared he did not believe she did it. He is com--0 , pletely prostrated over the death of his daughter and the arrest of his wife this afternoon, charged with murder. He was un- , | uable to acompany his wife to the Q 1 city hall for her examination and is under the oare of physicians. > When Crystal Krauss died her stepmother insisted that acute indigestion and heart failure caused death. f The physicians refused to give a r . | certificate of death from that cause, i saying strychnine poisoning had 1 j produced death. I > A SAD DEATH L Account of Society Girls Death Now Believed Murdered. A most untimely death was that l of Miss Crystal Krauss Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. The | cause of the death is not known but | the family believe that it was tho t: result of stomach trouble. Crystal was eighten years old and was one of tho most popular girls in the city. As there have boon a great many social functions lately in which she was one of the most uotive participants, her illness was thought to he a result of too muoh gaiety. She had complained Mon day but her condition was not so 1 serious that a physician’s service was thought to be necessary until Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock when Dr J D. Lorimore was called. A little while after dinner sho was getting worse hwl TVs f! W. Corey and Clapper were oalled. Crsytal was having convulsions and was unoonsoious. Her death took place at 1:30 in the presenoe of her fathor and other relatives, who had been called to her bed side. — Hartford City News. NOTICK To all Whom it May Conoern: 1 We have formed a oompany l known as the City Trucking Co., I and all business hereafter will bo 1 transacted at our office two doors « east of poatoffioe—phone 412—offioe : hours 7to 12 and Ito (1. Rosidoneo . phones 60 and 254. We have unit- t ed our business that we may reduce, 1 our expenses and at the same time t serve our patrons more satisfaotor- t ily. Dibble & Teeple. 170d24 i

OIL SAND Phenominal Specimen Blown from Hale Well J. J. Welsh, an oil driller, brought to this office today a large chunk of genuine oil sand, the kind that by boiling will reduce itself into crude oil. The sund was blown from well number one on the Hale farm, one mile south west of Geneva. It was shot yesterday afternoon by Charles Townsend of the Empire Glycerine Company, 260 quarts of nitro glycerine being used. Usually the sand is crushed very fine, but in this instance large chunks were blown out and the peculiar part is that when plaoed in boiling water the sand reduces it to oil. The well will maKe about twenty barrels per day. The specimen may be seen in our bulletin window.

LAWYERS MEET Adopt Resolutions on Death of G. W. Bergman Session of Bar Association Held this Morning—Committee Attend Funeral The Adams County bar association held a meeting this morning at the office of Schurger & Smith to take action upon the death of G. W. Bergman, of Portland, with whom every member was personally acquainted and whom they held in the highest esteem. In absence of the bar president R. S. Peterson, J. T. Merry man was made temporary chairman and D. E. Smith secretary. Attorneys L. C. DeVoss, J. C. Moran and A. P. Beatty were appointed on a committee to draft resolutions. A committee was also appointed to attend the funeral which will la? held at Port land this afternoon. The committee included Attorneys D D Heller, A. P. Beatty, J. T. Merry man and J. C. Moran. OPENS OFFICE

Fair Association have Headquarers in Niblick Block , The Great Northern Fair assobia tion have opened headquarters in R S. Peterson’s law -offices in the Niblick block over the Winnes shoe store where anybusiness may be looked after from now on until the faiir opens. Secretary C.‘ D. Kunkle will have charge of the offioe and will dish out any information desired. The arrangements for tho fair are progressing nicely and everything will be in readiness when August 30th, the opening day arrives. OF OLD AGE Mrs. Hannah Whitmore Died Same Day Brother was Burried Isaao Peterson received a letter this morning oonveying tho sad nows that his oldest sister, Mrs. i Hannah Whitmore had died at her i home near Battle Creek, Michigan i at old age, being eighty seven ! years old . Sho was a •inter of- - W. Peterson who wus buried * a week ago today, the day when 1 Mrs. Whitmore died. Her funeral i occurred last Saturday,July 30th 1 She was well known here and had < numerous relatives in tho oounty. i

NAMED OFFICERS Thomas Taggart’s Campaign Assistants Men who Will Help the National Chairman in His Work. Indinapolis, Ind., Auguts 4.— Thomas Taggart, chairman of the democartic national committee, last evening at 6:30 o’clock announced the following offioers of the democratio national committee and the following members of the national executive board: National committee—Delancey Nicoll, vice chairman, New York; George Foster Peabody, treasurer, New York , Executive committee—W. F. Sheehan, ohairman, New York; -August Belmont, New York; John R. McLean, Ohio ;United States Senator Thomas S, Martin, Scottsville, Va.; j Col. J. M, Gussy, Pittsburg, Pa.; | Ex-United State Senator James Smith, Jr., Newark, Timothy E. Ryan, Waukesha Wis DFATH SESULTS Railway Accident Proved Fatal — Samuel Robison who was Injured Tuesday Night Died at Noon Today Samuel V. Robinson who was so j seriously injured on Tuesday evening by being struck by Grand Runids freight train died today at the home of his wife on Adams street, at one o’clock, after suffering untold agony and pain. Mr. Robison was thirty-four years of age and for the past few years had been employed as brakoman by the Grand Rapids railroad, and on the night he was injured "was prephr ing to return to Fort Wayne and resume his work with the road, having come to this city to look up i old friends. The funeral services will * e held at the home of his wife on Saturday morning at ten o’clock, Rev. E. A. Pontius officiating. | Immediately after the services the , remains will be taken to the Grand Rapids railroad and shipped to Geneva where the interrment wil! be made Saturday afternoon. None of his relatives were present at the time of his death except his wife, two children und sister Mrs. Ida Holoomb, of Fort Wayne. His mother is in New York City, visiting with relatives and his sisters residing in Chioago, both have boon notified

CHILD IS LOST Littlt Son of Mrs. Sam Robison has Bren Missing All Day Ruby Robison, the little son of Mrs. S. V. Robison, whose husband died today left home at 6:30 o’clock this morning and up to the time we go to press could not be found any place. Tho police were notified uml made a thorough search for the little ohap, but their efforts were fruitless, ilis mother is nearly distracted and can hardly bo consoled. Later—The child found its way home at four o’olook this afternoon.

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KNOWN HERE Hon. Peter Keegan of Bunker Hill is Dead. Hon. Peter Keegan, father of Mrs. Bollman, died at his home at Bunker Hill, Monday, and was buried yesterday. He was quite old and was well known over the state, having been quite prominent in politics. He frequently has visited here and had numerous acquaintances. Mrs. Bollman who has lived with her father several years is reported very low with nervous prostration. RULING CHANGED Rural Carriers Here Each Draw $7.20 Assistant Bristow Changes his Order Regardlug Carriers Appointed Before June I.

All the rural mail carriers nut of Decatur as well as out of the I county will receive the maximum salary, $720. Representative Overstreet of Indianapolis, chairman of the congressional committee on post roads, has prevailed on the postoffioe department to revoke the I order issued several weeks, ago grading the slaries of rural lettercarriers, and to issue a new order under which the rural carriers will reoeive the pay oongress understood they were to receive when 1 it passed the postoffioe supply bill last spring. The Indianapolis con- ! gresman went to Washington last Saturday and took up the subject with the president and J. L. Bristow, Fourth Assistant Postmaster | General, who has charge of the ,; rural delivery servioe. Speaker Cannon accompanied Overstreet and the two pointed out that an in- , justice had unintentionally been done the rural carriers of the country by the order under whioh it was impossible for cites covering twentyfour miles to receive the maximum salary of $720 a year. It was . dearly the intent of the postoffice , committee and of oongress, both Overstreet and the speaker said, I that carriers who were receiving the maximum salary of S6OO at the t time the now law was passed should reoeive tho new maximum of $720, 1 fixed by this years appropriation | bill. Both the president and the | Assistant Postmaster General Bristow saw that the original order was in oontrovention of the appropriation bill and it was agreed, after Overstreet had explained the situation that the new order should be issued without delay. Ihe order was issued yesterday by Assistant Postmaster-General Bristow. The formal announcement given out at the department is as in the adjustment of the salaries of rural carriers in the postal servioe it has been decided that all the carriers appointed prior to Jttuu 30 1904 who were entitled to the maximum pay of S6OO under the rules whioh governed the establishment of routes at that time shall receive the maximum pay of $720 but that the schudule whoh became effective July 11904 J and reoently announced, shall prevail in fixing the compensation of all carriers appointed since June 3. AN ENJOYABLE TIME. Mrs. Frank Dibble and daughter Miss Blanch intertained the following ladies today at their oountry homo east of town for dinner; Mesdatnes R. K. Allison, Mrs. Dr. Thomas, MrH. Ed Bailey,'Mrs. Judge Studabaker, Mrs. D. \V. Beery, Mrs. Paul Hooper and Misses Marin Alii son, Carrie Thomas, Leotu Bailey and Master Brioo Thomas.